Astronaut Clayton Anderson, a 1981 Hastings College graduate from Ashland, Neb., will make his first space walk Monday, July 23.

Anderson, an Expedition 15 Flight Engineer, and Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin from Russia will don United States spacesuits and float out of the complex's Quest airlock at approximately 5:30 a.m. (CDT).

NASA TV coverage will begin at 5 a.m., and is available through HCTV to Charter Cable subscribers in Hastings on Channel 6.

During the 6.5-hour spacewalk astronauts will replace a failed power controller on the station's truss, jettison a refrigerator-sized ammonia reservoir tank and clean seals on a docking port on the Unity module.

Anderson is spending four months at the International Space Station, returning to earth in late October.

A complete schedule of NASA television programming is available at: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html
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